Product Details

• Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Michael Massee, Vincent Spano
• Directors: Armand Mastroianni
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Rhi Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 14, 2007
• Run Time: 169 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PE0GXM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,022 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Pandemic" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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PANDEMIC - DVD Movie

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb and worhty of public attention, October 18, 2007

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Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

It was a very long flight to Oakland (to attend Bioneers), and this movie got me through the last two hours. It is superb. It should be required viewing for every citizen, every official, every foundation leader, every elected person. It is well-crafted, credible, absorbing, and thought-provoking.

Highlights:
* How the selfishness of one "run-away" infected person can kill tens of thousands and defeat the pre-quarantine containment process.
* Failure to control *each* passenger by name in the delicate transition from infected aircraft to controlled environment is the one thing that can destroy a containment.
* Failure to be candid with citizens and put public ran-away notice with photo of the run-away makes the situation much worse. Failure to tell the run-aways office workers and home family the exact threat they represent negates their value in bringing the run-away in before they infect hundreds more directly, thousands indirectly.
* The movie provides a fascination depiction of the scientific investigative process, while also depicting the political tensions among the Mayor, the Governor, and others, each seeking to balance archaic political calculations with unknown biological "runaway train" implications.
* The movie reminds us that a run-away worst impact is among first responders who missed the alerts and begin to die as fast as the people they are treating.
* The utility of ice rinks as emergency morgues for hundreds of bodies.

Overall this is a great movie with a fine plot including a worst case break-out of a convicted drug lord, and what happens when people turn off the radio or silence the witness before they can complete a sentence that begins "it's not so simple."

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars FUNNIEST PANDEMIC I'VE EVER SEEN, October 5, 2011

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This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

You knew it had to be schlock when the chic from Saved By the Bell and French Stewart are slated to play doctors from the CDC. Basically a kid returning on a flight from Australia carries a horrible virus on the plane home and dies. The plane and everyone on it is put into quarantine. One rogue passenger escapes the quarantine and runs around yapping on his cell phone and spreading the virus to a bunch of other people. This in turn causes Los Angeles to be quarantined. There are also some subplots including a drug kingpin prisoner whose crew breaks him out of the quarantine, competing political candidates, and the family drama between agent Vincent Spano, his ex-wife and their son. The fake virus hilariously named "riptide" (in lieu of the fact that the first victim on the plane was a surfer) kills people alot like the avian flu. There were funny elements to this movie. The acting is terrible. It has an "after school special" vibe that is totally laughable. Some of the characters are completely stereotypical and nuts (like the militia guy that keeps b**ching about the government and conspiracy type stuff and riles up a group of his cronies to do something about the whole thing after some people break free from the quarantine). I did find the idea of taking the dead bodies to the hockey rink kind of clever since it was like mass refrigeration. I also think as chocked full o' schlock as the movie was, it did try to get its message out about what might happen if a pandemic exploded. All in all, I watched it for the so bad it's cool to watch reason. Be sure not to miss Tiffany - Amber Thiessen telling a nurse that "panic" is "pandemic" with three missing letters - oooohhh geez - totally funny.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie !!!, August 18, 2009

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someone_somewhere (NRW) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandemic (DVD)

The only thing I can say about this movie is that it's brilliant, a very good, solid thriller about a virus threatening the population of Los Angeles and maybe the rest of the world. And it shows how dangerous a situation like this can become because of the misconduct of only a few people..... It should also open up people's eyes that a situation like this could occur every minute on our planet and it maybe makes people a bit more thoughtful . All in all, it has everything a good movie needs to have, it's thrilling, has a good strong story all the way through, great scenes and good actors. I especially loved Vincent Spano as FBI-agent Troy Whitlock and Tiffany Thiessen was also wonderful, but all the others did a good job too. I loved this movie, it was really good and the 3 hours passed very fast, they didn't get boring at all. It also had great entertainment-value and good action-scenes. The bonus-features like the making-of and the interviews were also very interesting and so I can recommend this DVD to everybody.... Just watch it !